Riu Karamboa

Got back from riu karamboa, boa vista, Cape Verde on Sunday 6th April after an absolutely fantastic week. I really don't know where to start with this revue as it was just so good , so will start from the beginning, at the airport in Boavista. Landed on time at an airport which was just like a sandcastle. Bit of a wait going through passport control but to be honest it didnt matter as you could take in local surroundings. Finally through to other side and were directed straight to our coach set off straight away to our hotel. Now what can i say about this journey!! 5 mins down the road and there we were pulling up. Cases taken off and left to one side for porter to take to room and handed a nice refreshing drink. We were prob about 15 mins checking in and advised how to get to our room. The complex is very big which we are not used to so expected a long trudge trying to find it but got there quite easily as everything is well sign posted, 5 mins later porter arrived with our luggage. The room was lovely. Spotless clean, nice and cool and a lovely balcony seating area. The bathroom and wardrobe were in a separate area with the wardrobe having plenty of hanging space with plenty of hangers. There was a safe and kettle with coffee tea etc. There was also a fridge with i think 4 large bottles of water. Quick change into something more comfortable and we managed to grab a quick bite to eat in the restaurant. They wete closing but the staff were very nice and let us carry on, they even brought us a drink. The food at the Karamboa is lovely could find no fault, obviously this is an all inc hotel and so your not going to get gourmet style meals but the food was varied and very tasty and with lots of options, a bit samey every day but i just changed what i had, and there was enough variety that you didnt get bored. Pool area massive with plenty of beds to go about all though some could do with being replaced as they were in fixed position and couldnt be sat up. One thing to mention is that take note of where you are as it is a little bit maze like how all the beds are laid out i got a bit lost a cpl of times (maybe that was the beer!) The local beer is Astrella which is very nice and my husband took a great liking to it he also said the red wine was ok. I drink white wine and found that to be very nice. All alcoholic drinks were ok and a lot nicer than the usual all inc stuff you get at other destinations. Now to best bits. Now please if you go on any trips do the whale watching (march through April) and the quad bikes to Monaco beach, I really cant rate these highly enough. We had a fantastic day on both trips and cant wait to do them again. On the whale watching trips photo's were taken on board catamaran for you to purchase back at the hotel if you wished but be aware that photo's taken on quad bike tour have to be paid for back at the quad shop if you wasnt them. I was disappointed that we couldnt get our photo's as we only took a small bit of money thinking we would have the option to buy once back at the hotel. To sum up this was a fantastic holiday with fantastic staff THANK YOU ALL

The hotel is African authentic. It's not bland like most hotels. We really enjoyed our stay. Food and drink was very good, lots of choice. Always something going on around the pool every day, and if you didn't want to be a part of it you could just step on to the beach.